stryddag, noun

/ˈstreɪ(t)dax/
Forms:
Also strydag.
Plurals:
stryddags, stryddae/ˈstreɪ(t)dɑːə/.
Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, stryd struggle, conflict + dag day.
A rally held by an Afrikaner political organization; transferred sense, any political rally.
1950 Cape Times 26 July 1Mr. C.R. Swart, Minister of Justice, told a Nationalist Party stryddag here yesterday that he was not prepared to reintroduce public hanging.
1961 Cape Times 11 Jan. 1In Britain he will be able to give the moderately-phrased versions of apartheid far more expertly and convincingly than in heated debates in Parliament or during stryddae in the platteland.
1964 M. Benson Afr. Patriots 146J.G. Strijdom, Nationalist leader, significantly chose Bethal for a Stryddag (struggle day), when he announced that the white man should always be master..in public life in South Africa.
1972 Daily Dispatch 14 Apr. 10The day of the big stryddag is over. Those large crowds will never again drive across the veld to hear emotional appeals to the blood.
1975 Sunday Times 13 Apr. 4Bring me there a bottle of 1973 Scharzberg. You know, man, the kind we knock back at a stryddag in the Waterberg at a Herstigte rally.
1978 Pace Dec. 51On Sunday, Chief Buthelezi is going to put on his Inkatha uniform and address an all-black stryddag in Soweto.
1980 Voice 20 Aug. 2As an old traveller on the South African Railways I have always been amused by the fact that the higher-ups..seem to become deaf when one points out that they make more money out of black commuters than they will ever make in a life-time of strydags.
1986 P. Le Roux in Burman & Reynolds Growing Up 191The volksfeeste (folk festivals) — Republic Day, Kruger Day, and Day of the Covenant — interspersed with National Party stryddae (fètes), attracted fewer participants every year.
A rally held by an Afrikaner political organization; transferred sense, any political rally.
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struis, nounn.strykgeld, nounn.
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